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quarantining and thank you. jeffrey epstein il spread the virus president trump so far, no fines have plunged back into the been issued in new issue of police and asked the court york city. killings of black americans today and for a $5 million bail and home arrest in a months ago texas also weighing in on luxury manhattan hotel. the issue of the the elusive 58-year-old appeared imposed its own 14-day confederate flag via video conference in a brown prison quarantine for the president making uniform. >> maxwell looked travelers from the controversial comments completely different northeast. about both than the pictures we today officials told nbc news they did not are used to seeing her on socialite pages cite anyone just she had much longer >> reporter: in a new conducted random spot checks interview with cbs hair, darker, back in news president trump a ponytail called the killing of george floyd by police >> reporter: though >> just by the sheer terrible number of people we would need to enforce her defense team this around the clock argued the covid pandemic made 24/7 we just don't but he hit back when tonight the new developments have that type of staffing. asked about the underlying issue of on several fronts in the coronavirus outbreak >> reporter: still deadly use of force by preparing for trial behind bars not florida, alabama, and north after three people police realistic the judge carolina all reporting their returned to warren >> why are rejected the proposal saying maxwell poses deadliest days since the county, new york from african-americans pandemic began a vacation in florida still dying at the hands of law and tested positive, enforcement in this country? according to much of california shutting down 46 residents are now on lockdown and being >> so are white monitored. people so are white people. prosecutors maxwell all over again as it closes in was less than candid about her wealth on 340,000 infections. >> we have eight what a terrible question to ask. active cases of in court documents coronavirus. investigators say she and the dire new warning if we had 200 active so are white people. holds a swiss bank account worth more today from the cdc director. cases it gets a lot more white people by the way. more white people. than $4 million and a the emergency order in new york, harder and more labor intensive. british account worth the one time epicenter, what >> reporter: the president also travelers from 22 states must >> reporter: the defending the display more than $2 million prosecutors say she governor's office says of the confederate flag took deliberate steps now do or face a $2,000 fine travelers driving from to avoid law how will it be enforced? hot spots must fill t the form. enforcement including wrapping her cell >> you understand why the flag phone in tin foil. what they called a symbol for many people because it is a seemingly misguided reminder of slavery. >> people love it. effort to evade detection. i know people that like the confederate president trump in flag and they're not her attorneys haveextra steps d a new interview saying thinking about slavery. more white people are i just think it's freedom of speech the media not the killed by police than whether it's police black people in america and his new one accuser told the defense of the confederate flags or confederate flag just in supreme court black lives matter or anything else you want judge maxwell enjoyed
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justice ruth bader to talk about. it's freedom of drawing her victims in ginsburg hospitalized. her new health scare speech with perceived caring. jeffrey epstein's annie farmer said she >> reporter: those was 16 years old when alleged accomplice facing a judge comments coming as the president faces fresh sexually trafficked by ghislain maxwell fall out over his entering her plea and coronavirus response maxwell and told the the major move today from the judge in the form of an court by phone maxwell the battle over extraordinary rebuke has lied under oath and torments her survivors. going back to school the big district from four former heads recommending children of the cdc who argue return without masks maxwell's arrest has been met with hope and disbelief by other or social distancing epstein accusers >> i am still trying to wrap my brain around her behind bars do antibodies protect you and how long do they last? there is part of me that justice has already failed us. this situation so i'm kind of just good evening waiting for the other shoe to drop everyone it looks a lot like march in the nation's >> reporter: the trial is not expected to largest state. last long about three weeks but ghislain maxwell will have a nearly four months lot of time to think after californians about it in her jail cell were told to shelter the trial isn't set to in place closed signs begin until july of are back up in places next year. that only recently lester reopened all in a >> stephanie gosk in new york tonight, thanks in 60 seconds the desperate effort to slow the spread of covid. debate over reopening schools and the in those four months enormous challenges deaths in california facing students, alone rising from just 18 to over 7,000 parents, and educators and facts over fear. rolling back what experts now say restrictions one of about getting the few options left reinfected with covid-19 for states as the head of the cdc today uttered a haunting prediction
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we've got it all covered. miguel almaguer starts us off >> reporter: with california crippled by covid, tonight the first state to order a sweeping shutdown now becoming the lge implement a me rollback the governor's new closures aren't just limited to indoor dining, bars, movie theaters, and churches most hair salons, malls, gyms, and noncritical offices where millions work every day must also shutter. >> i just really hope that people are going to take it seriously i don't know what it is going to take for people to understand >> reporter: the fifth largest economy in the world grinding to a halt again the virus killing small businesses >> we can't close. if we close, we'll lose everything we have >> reporter: facing economic disaster, california is in the middle of a health crisis the state now averaging 8,000 new izions areay, more than up 43% in two weeks as with the debate
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raging over how to send children back to school safely more than one-third of districts across the all cases are in los country are making their own plans angeles county >> we have never had as many people tonight. everything from online infected or only learning to infectious in-person classes with no social distancing here is blayne we have never had as many recorded positive cases each day alexander. we've never had as many people in the hospital >> reporter: in orange county, california the divide runs deep >> reporter: while l.a.'s mayor could order additional some pleading, keep students at homesi at a closures like the city's famed beaches virtual school board and trails, the state meeting -- is hoping to drive >> time to get these doors opened and get home its requirement for face masks these babies back to releasing this new psa. school. >> reporter: the orange county board of education agreed, recommending students but not everyone is listening. in all 28 districts even in hard hit return to the states some are refusing to enforce or classrooms next month, require measures like no masks or social face masks distancing required. a paper adopted and the mixed messages say approved by the board slamming distance doctors elin learning as an utter failure frustrating to cases, california, florida, and texas all, citing irregular attendance and disparities in access to technology. million infections since the start of the pandemic while the decision to reopen is up to each >> i do think the fall district the board and winter of 2020 and calls it critical to 2021 will be probably the well being of our one of the most children, families, and communities. difficult times we've experienced in but to the north and american public south, both los health angeles and san diego
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>> reporter: but there are signs of progress. public schools are biotech company going in a different direction announcing moderna will soon begin testing their trial vaccine on the start of school 30,000 patients but help may not come soon will be online only. returning to the classroom as soon as enough for moises public health conditions allow ramirez loza whose >> when in learning -- in-person learning is vigil on a sidewalk possible we are ora outside his room where he has been on a ventilator for ten it is not possible days right now. >> when we do the rosary he cries. when we talk to him he among neighboring cries. districts. so we know he is still there. in memphis where he shows those parents can choose expressions. between virtual and in-person learning we know he's -- he more cleaning, masks hears us. for everyone, smaller >> reporter: tonight classes, and scheduled hand washing the cost of covid impacting lives and >> it is going to cost livelihoods in millions of dollars. devastating ways we've spent already miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles. upwards of close to $50 million to get schools up and going >> reporter: this is sam brock in florida but we'll need more. which tonight set a record for coronavirus fatalities >> reporter: and while the majority of public education is funded at the state and local level, all eyes are on 132 marks the highest number in a single washington for that extra boost. day, fueling questions about what is happening in this congress approved more state. than $13 billion of >> we are exploding aid for schools early because we didn't have in the pandemic and in the next relief a unified approach and package hundreds of billions more could be
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we didn't manage to on the table convince our population of the serious risk a lot of this also comes down to teachers >> reporter: experts and whether they are ready to come back also point to a toxic re combination of crowded survey by the state's beaches, packed largest educators association found that protests, bustling more than half of bars, and people not those responding do wearing masks. >> the amount of not believe their district has been people who don't think enough to respond to they need to do something is enormous. the virus. >> blayne alexander, thanks key questions before schools reopen. can patients who have around 25% officials had covid get it again say multi generationalonroof a and do antibodies provide protection if so, how long? household infections spread out of control. >> younger people have our tom costello now been contaminating with facts over fear older people >> reporter: florida >> reporter: has been ripping through its records 29-year-old carter for daily cases and wright knows all too well the symptoms that also testing more than come with covid. any place in this pandemic the cough, the body aches, and the high fever. just packed there like sardines >> at one point i got >> reporter: antonio tovar represents florida's farm workers association. cold packs and put i am in miami beach is there any evidence it is the agricultural them under my arm pits field that is driving this surge in florida? because that helps cool you quickly right now where cars for testing line around the block >> not at all. there is not enough time in a day to test the workers are not all these people >> reporter: he was first diagnosed in driving this surge of march then covid came back even stronger on as he pumped up the pandemic july 4th >> reporter: today the testing and called for governor's office >> i cried hard thatelng faster results the governor a at the state's agricultural workers saying this anthey arel >> reporter: because telling nbc news the u why didn't the overall picking season
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is over but migrants groups say they are still active tonight florida trying to get a grip on the crisisrtunately at this antibodies from the first infection protect him from getting it again new research suggests time since we haven't the virus protection seen a turn-around the may not last long. last few days despite these measures is to enter another british researchers lockdown say a study of 96 >> reporter: one covid patients found option the state's leader so far has left their antibodies off the table. sam brock, nbc news, peaked three weeks miami. after the symptoms appeared then rapidly declined three months later now to new york, only 17% of those once the epicenter of the crisis, with over tested have the same 30,000 deaths, but tonight to kee level of antibodies. university of alabama infection rates low the governor is getting tougher about doctor michael sag was quarantines from sick with covid in travelers from hot march and still wears spots. ppe. can the crackdown be enforced if antibody protection here is gabe drops fast he says it gutierrez. >> reporter: new york's governor is billing it a drastic >> because if that move to stop the spread translates into someone possibly >> if you leave the airport without getting reinfected, that destroys the providing the information, you will concept of what we receive a summons have of herd immunity immediately. where large numbers of people who have had it can ultimately >> reporter: starting today officers will meet passengers at new york airports. extinguish the infection and put this those coming from 22 behind us a little bit. states designated as >> reporter: covid hot spots now researchers don't know need to fill out these if a vaccine's protection might also forms from the health diminish over time
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department providing >> what we do know is contact information or that a single face a $2,000 fine the state had already imposed a two- experience with covid quarantine for those does not render travelers like elle hathaway of california who is returning to syracuse university next month someone immune the rest of their lives >> trying to figure out a way to work with them immune for more the governor and figure out a safe, than a few months. >> reporter:re protection than effective way. realistically they know kids are not going to be able to those who are less come back two weeks early. sick but because that protection may >> reporter: with tens of thousands of people diminish over time, even recovered patients are traveling here everywithout encouraged to wear a mask lester >> we keep learning so much about this virus, tom. and so much of it isn't good up next why covid is hitting one community particularly hard owith our
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undermine the agency's guidance for schools hoping to reopen in the fall the condemnation from the doctors comes as president trump blasted the cdc's school reopening guidelines as very tough and expensive. for guidelines to be issued by cdc and then undermined by the white house confuses everyone >> the cdc guidelines are based in science if we can't rely on that, where are we going to turn? >> reporter: a white house official tells us in response it has been working with the cdc in partnership since the very beginning of this pandemic and they say they encourage all
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ruth bader ginsburg has been hospitalized for treatment of a possible infection the 87-year-old justice underwent a procedure to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last august the court says she will stay in the hospital for a few days to receive i.v. antibiotic treatment a federal judge today denied bail for ghislain maxwell the former girlfriend of jeffrey epstein who was accused of sex trafficking young women for him. stephanie gosk with details. >> reporter: bail denied ghislain maxwell has to wait for her trial behind bars.e partner of
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series "looking at inequality in america" as california shuts down again los angeles county alone has more covid cases than 44 entire states and getting hit hardest there is the latino community. here is gadi schwartz. >> reporter: under the hot summer sun in los angeles, this woman is selling masks on a street corner. [ speaking in spanish >> reporter: she said everywhere she was cleaning houses they all told her she wouldn't be able to come back until the pandemic was over. every day her kids beg her not to go out afraid she'll get sick but she needs the money to feed her family [ speaking in spanish >> reporter: she says that she gets mad when she sees somebody without a mask but she doesn't want to say anything because people are very violent these days
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warranted. in los angeles latinos are more than twice as like tts and across the country where latinos make up 19% of the population, they account for one-third of all cases. frustrating for this doctor >> well, it is alarming. >> reporter: he says the government isn't sending enough resources to minority communities, many of whom don't have the option of staying home even when cases are spiking. those are the people on the front lines when it comes to being essential workers, grocery stores, making sure everything is clean. >> they are the same people delivering our food when we're sheltering at home they're the same people that when we go to the grocery store they're helping us >> a month ago he was completely healthy. >> reporter: this woman's father mark a first generation mexican american lived in tulson, arizona and after stay-at-home >> reporter: now she is calling on elected officials to do more >> do more to protect people of color communities that are on the front lines holding our economy together >> reporter: while those selling masks to protect us say now is
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the time to be more vigilant than ever [ speaking in spanish >> reporter: she says this isn't a game. she says this is a virus and this virus will kill you. gadi schwartz, nbc news, los angeles. up next one boy's inspiring shout out to the front lines.
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before we go in our latest episode of "nightly news kids edition" a 12-year-old who is lifting spirits on the front lines by holding impromptu concerts outside his local hospital plus we'll meet an inspiring dance teacher and her students who are stepping in and stepping up despite the virus outbreak our new episode is streaming now. that is "nightly news." thank you for watching everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other.
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